Eurovision Song Contest 2009 result: Norway won with the song "Fairytale" by Alexander Rybak with 387 points

Qualification for the Grand Final: 25; Host (Russia), Big-4 (Germany, France, Spain, United Kingdom), 9 best televoting songs + 1 best jury song (which was not among the 9 televoting songs) from each of the Semi-finals: Semi-final 1 and Semi-final 2

In 2009 Georgia decided to send the song "We Don't Wanna Put In" to the contest in Moscow, but because of a controversy about the lyrics in the song, EBU banned the song from participating, if the lyrics was not changed. Georgia refused to change the lyrics, and withdrew from the contest